Village board set to take up Inflection offer

Dec. 18, 2010

Village of Owego The Village of Owego's Board of Trustees is again set to consider an offer Monday to sell treated wastewater to a Denver-based natural gas company.

Inflection Energy's offer -- 5 cents a gallon for up to 200,000 gallons each day -- was tabled earlier this month after residents raised concern about potential truck traffic that could come through the village as a result. Mayor Edward Arrington called a special session last week to reconsider the deal, but it was called off after a medical emergency prevented the full board from attending.

The deal has the potential to double the village's yearly revenues, which come in around $3 million. Inflection, which has twice offered to lease Broome County land for gas extraction, would use the water for its hydraulic fracturing operations.